Metal bedstead.



. PATENTED SEPT. 1,1908. L. B. SNYDER & S. T. HERON.

METAL BEDSTEAD. APPLICATION FILED JULY 13,1907.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

LON B. SNYDER AND SHIRLEY T. HERON, OF CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE.

METAL BEDSTEAD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 1, 1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LON B. SNYDER and SHIRLEY T. HERON, citizens of theUnited States, residing at Chattanooga, in the county of Hamilton andState of Tennessee, have invented new and useful Improvements in MetalBedsteads, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to metal bedsteads, and more particularly toimprovements in the connections between the side rails of the bedsteadand the posts at the head and foot frames on the bedstead.

The invention has for one of its objects to provide a simple,inexpensive and durable means for connecting the side bars to the cornerposts of the bedstead and which permit of the side bars to be readilyreversed.

A further object of the invention is the provision of bolt-carryingblocks on the posts of a bedstead and slotted heads on the ends of theside rails with tongue and groove joints for preventing relative turningbetween the blocks and heads, the bolts being disposed in the slots ofthe heads for fastening the parts together.

With these objects in view and others, as will appear as the descriptionproceeds, the invention comprises the various novel features ofconstruction and arrangement of parts which will be more fully describedhereinafter and set forth with particularity in the claims appendedhereto.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates one of the embodiments ofthe invention, Figure 1 is a plan view of one corner of a bedstead withthe corner post in section. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the siderail in reversed position. Fig. 3 is a vertical section on line 33,Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a similar section on line 4-4, Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is aperspective view of one of the heads or terminal blocks of one of theside rails or bars of the bedstead. Fig. 6 is an elevation of a portionof the corner post showing the block thereon.

Similarreference characters are employed to designate correspondingparts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawing, 1 designates a corner post of a bedstead onwhich is fixed a block 2 that serves to support one end of i the crossbar 3.

The inner end 4 of the block is preferably vertical, and extendinghorizontally therefrom is a stud 5 that is preferably threaded. Thisstud may be formed integral or in any other suitable manner and isadapted to extend through the slot 6 in the head or end block 7 formedon the side bar 8 of the bedstead, there being a nut 9 on the bolt thatbears against the head 7 for rigidly securing the side bar to the cornerpost. It is to be understood that the opposite end of the side bar isconnected with the correspondingly disposed corner post of the bedsteadby means of a similar connection, and in order to prevent the side barfrom turning on the bolts 5, interlocking tongues and grooves 9 and 10are formed on and in the opposed surfaces of the blocks and heads 7, andthe tongues are held in engagement with the grooves by drawing the nuts9 tightly home. The tongues and grooves are so arranged that the sidebars, which are preferably angle irons, can be turned so that either web11 thereof may be disposed horizontally. To adjust the position of theside bars, it is merely necessary to loosen the nuts 9 a sufficientdistance to permit the head and foot frames of the bedstead to be movedto one side a distance sufficient to free the tongues from the grooves,thereby permitting the side rails to be turned on the bolts throughninety degrees or one hundred and eighty degrees, and then clamped inposition again by the tightening of the nuts.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawing, the advantages of the construction and of themethod of operation will be readily apparent to those skilled in the artto which the invention appertains, and while we have described theprinciple of operation of the invention, together with the apparatuswhich we now consider to be the best embodiment thereof, we desire tohave it understood that various changes may be made when desired, as arewithin the scope of the claims.

Having thus described the invention, what we claim is The combination ofa side bar, a block shaped head thereon provided with a slot extendingentirely through the same, a corner post, a block fixed thereon andprovided with a horizontally extending stud adapted In testimonywhereof, We afiix our signeto extend through the slot, means on the studtures in presence of two Witnesses.

for rigidly securing the head and block to- LON B. SNYDER.

gether, tongues on the block radially dis- SHIRLEY T. HERON. 5 posedaround the stud adapted to extend l/Vitnesses:

into correspondingly shaped grooves on the D. S. GREEN,

head. W. E. HERON.

